Harvie Krumpet

Mary and Max It is 1976, an 8-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore) is a lonely little girl living in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Australia. Her relatively poor family cannot afford to buy her toys or nice clothing, and she is teased by children at her school due to an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead. Her father is distant and her alcoholic, kleptomaniac mother provides no support. The closest thing she has to a friend is the man for whom Mary collects mail, Len Hislop, a World War

these text link to not belonging and belong through use of techniques to Harvie Krumpet Harvie wasn’t a normal child, he had a condition where he could not control his impulses – Tourette’s syndrome. Throughout his life Harvie faced heartbreak and exclusion, his parents died, world war II was at large, he was forced to migrate to Australia as well as lost his testicle to cancer. Adam Elliot - the director of Harvie Krumpet – used a range of film techniques to portray the feeling of not belonging

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Adam Elliot is an Australian stop-motion animator. He has received over one hundred awards through his career. In 2003 Adam Elliot won an academy award for Animated Short Film for his movie “Harvie Krumpet”. Elliot calls his films “clayography” - clay animated biography - because most of them are based on his friends and family. “Mary & Max” is an Australian clay-animated film written and directed by Adam Elliot. The film is about a friendship between two pen pals, Mary a eight-year old girl and